* [PATCH] fs/affs: fix potential memory leak in option parsing
@ 2018-05-22 4:24 Chengguang Xu
2018-05-28 10:35 ` David Sterba
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chengguang Xu @ 2018-05-22 4:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-fsdevel
Cc: dsterba, dhowells, jlayton, viro, linux-kernel, Chengguang Xu
When specifying option 'prefix' multiple times,
current option parsing will cause memory leak.
Hence, call kfree for previous one in this case.
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
---
fs/affs/super.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/affs/super.c b/fs/affs/super.c
index e602619..d1ad11a 100644
--- a/fs/affs/super.c
+++ b/fs/affs/super.c
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ enum {
affs_set_opt(*mount_opts, SF_NO_TRUNCATE);
break;
case Opt_prefix:
+ kfree(*prefix);
*prefix = match_strdup(&args[0]);
if (!*prefix)
return 0;
--
1.8.3.1
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* Re: [PATCH] fs/affs: fix potential memory leak in option parsing
2018-05-22 4:24 [PATCH] fs/affs: fix potential memory leak in option parsing Chengguang Xu
@ 2018-05-28 10:35 ` David Sterba
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Sterba @ 2018-05-28 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chengguang Xu; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, dhowells, jlayton, linux-kernel, viro
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:24:25PM +0800, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> When specifying option 'prefix' multiple times,
> current option parsing will cause memory leak.
> Hence, call kfree for previous one in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Thanks, the patch and others that may queue up will be in my git tree
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux.git in a
branch with 'affs' somewhere in the name.
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